Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-09-03
BUNKER HILL ITEMS.

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Take Notice! It's September
Hunt up an overcoat if you stay late,
and catch cold easily.
Camp meeting Sunday at Darkes-
vile.
Mr.. John Lamon has fine grapes
and is quite liberal with them. They
have been we'll cultivated. Mr.. John
Bell has a fine crop of grapes also,
but his other fruit is not near so plen-
tiful as heretofore.
The croaking frogs are quite musical
alon0 the stream.
Everyone looks at the moon. Why?
Because the women say it has man
in it, and the men say it's woman.
The man says clink, clank, and the
woman-give him spank. He'd
come sailing faster than he went up
if she did the spanking; practice
makes perfect, you know.
The picnic held by the M. E. Sum
day School, South, at Gerardstown
last Saturday was decided success.
The old as well as young enjoyed the
evening, and the enlivening of music
strains by the GerardstOwn brass
band did well to enliven the occasion
and was rendered particularly well.
Mr.. George Deck who was seriously
hurt some time ago by horse run
ming of, is improving.
Mr.. Jenkins, the man who was
brutally and maliciously beaten by a
man by the name of Locke, at Wades-
vile, last week is laying in critical
condition; there are no hopes what
ever entertained for his recovery by
eminent physicians. His wife, who
also was struck, is very i'll.
Mr.. G. F. Laise, ST., has been quite
i'll the past week but is convalescent.
"L.eOne," does the Sheriff ever
come back from the Hill vicinity
demoralized You know he used to
but now he is "demulcent" on a SIS
ter village. 1t seems so now we must
make it a "villi" affair.
Miss Anna Hoffman is ON visit to
friends in Shepherdstown.
A column will be furnished after
awhile for bicycle accidents" We
never see any wheel news anymore,
so special inducements will be fur
nished those sending in accidents. If
I could spend my evenings in Darkes-
Vile I would be one of the COMPETE
tors, as with Grove, Shipe and Ander-
son at this end, Scheu, Weaving,
Minghini, Timberlake and a dozen
others from your place: l tell you all,
some evenings the scatteration is ter
rife, an earthquake shock-a-a pulsa-
ton of the heart presumably, with
the change of atmosphere is the cause,
wheel news all the same.
Miss Ella Welsh, of Middleway, is
paying visit to friends here.
Messrs. James Strider, Rush Logic
and Chas. Jones, of Leetown, passed
through here on Thursday for Back
Creek, where they will camp awhile
to fish and have a good time gener-
ally. We hope their catch may be
Dear and their stay pleasant.
Miss Mary Pitzell, of Keyser, is
spending while with Miss Ella Noll
on Tuscarora.
Mr.. Glenn Lyle, of Darkesville, is
improving slowly.
Mr.. Henry Jennings and family, of
Middleway, spent Sunday as guests of
Mr.. John Gardner and family at this
place.
Bette HenselI, of your place, Miss
Gertie Best, of Brucetown, and Alice
lobe, of Baltimore, are guests of the
Misses Gilberts in Smithfeld.
Mr.. Harry Smith, telegraph editor
of the Cincinnati Enquirer" an
affable and intelligent gentleman, of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and daughter are
visiting Mr., Lafaette Smith, in Mid
dleway.
Misses Kratz, of Martinsburg, and
Sencindiver, of Darkesville, returned
home after pleasant visit to Miss
Irene Minghini.
Mr.. G. E. Lockhart has returned
home after finishing his duties with
Sheriff Lamon.
Messrs. Edgar Outcalt and Bert Me-
Clure, of Jefferson County, spent last
week on bicycle tour through Mary
land. They report having had good
time and mashes Gee.
The family of Mr.. Samuel Mohler
will start for Port Perry, Pa., Mon
day for their future abode. Mr.. Mob
Ter has been there some time in bust.
ness and has home provided.
Mr.. Ned Bowers, from near Ger
ardstown, left last week for Salem to
attend Roanoke College.
COIuc leW dttCuOcO tIlO CdlIp i1ecI-
ing at Greenspring last Sunday from
here.
Miss Willie Carroll, of Capon, is
visiting her sister Mrs. Fisher.
Mr.. Snyder, of Capon Bridge, has
obtained clerkship with Mr.. J. T.
Fisher, merchant.
The Presbyterian Sabbath School
held their picnic in the orchard of Mr..
VIM. Kilmer on Thursday. The
evening was pleasantly passed.
Mr.. Adolphus Kogleschatz. of Mar
tinsburg, spent Sunday with friends
in Darkesville.
We heard Internationally the other
day a conversation through the
"phoue," or enough to catch on; it
was certainly exquisite, but time for
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